Can we also ask Reynolds not to use the verb “chill?” Glenn ... dude ... you are so not cool. Who do you think you are kidding?

“the MSM is putting false equivalence between rallies where screened Republicans shout out threats and accuse their opponent of being a terrorist and a traitor in front of the Republican ticket and random people that Reynolds can’t even name fantasizing about doing bad things to Bush.”

Where have you been? Didn’t you know that calling someone an Arab nigger and a terrorist is on the same level as booing a VP candidate? Get with the program. Become a wingnut! Yeah!
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Seriously, this kind of crap needs to STOP!

“Over the past week, several members of McCain/Palin audiences have declared that various people are terrorists, traitors and deserve death. “

BS. 

Remember Reverand Wright. Obama sat in his pew for 20 yrs.

Liberals found someone they can bully; Sarah Palin’s 6 yr old daughter.

If I’d only known that the Angry Left was hanging out at hockey games I’d try to get out more often.  Who knew?

Well, Reverand Wright; should defanitely not have booed Sarah Palin’s 6 yr old daughter.  I’ll give you that.  But everyone knows that hockey fans are socialist thugs.

Palin’s team knew she would get booed. Philly fans boo Santa Claus. I think they did this gig on purpose, knowing full well what the outcome would be so that they could use it later.

Egads!  The McCain/Palin thugs are resisting by breaking things and setting things on fire!

“Is there some other blog you read before you mistakenly comment here?”

No, sir, it is this very blog.  Yup, this one, but during your hiatus.

I don’t think anyone really has anything against Sarah Palin’s six-year-old daughter. This may just be me, but I think they may have actually been booing Sarah Palin.

Just a thought.

KLH…

So you can’t stand the truth and thinks it’s OK to hide behind your 6-year-daughter - you’re clearly a modern conservative. You didn’t really need to post the gratuitous brain fart about Wright to clue us in. A question for you: Why are conservatives such cowards?

Egads!  The McCain/Palin thugs are resisting by breaking things and setting things on fire!

Horace Rumpole on 10/12

HR

<a href=‘http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbpZXivv-M’>Watch this<a>, (don’t worry, it’s only 1 1/2 mins long) and then come back and tell me that none of those people will break things or set things on fire if Obama is elected.

Sorry, bad link, s/b <a >this</a>

Atheist, quotation marks instead of apostrophes in the link.

I smell a wager.  If the riotous mob of Bethlehem burns Bethlehem to the ground, I will buy you a Coke.

KLH, Palin should be investigated by child protective services for even bringing that kid to a hockey game, let alone the Flyers.

Seriously - more vile language and violence than an R movie! 

The RNC and McSame campaign, and Palin, simply demonstrated their geographic ignorance and had their assumptions that hockey fans and pickup driving working class types =“my people” challenged.  She makes much about how “hockey moms” are vicious beasts .  This time, she got the lipstick end.

You and Horace can go make out in the stands though - lots of violent man on man action to turn you on.

I smell a wager.  If the riotous mob of Bethlehem burns Bethlehem to the ground, I will buy you a Coke.

So, you don’t believe that any of those people would resort to violence? Is that what you are saying?

“So, you don’t believe that any of those people would resort to violence? Is that what you are saying?”

Well, I wouldn’t just give away a Coke, would I?

Well, I wouldn’t just give away a Coke, would I?

So, yes, you think they might, but reserve the right to doubt?

What do you think about the chances that those people in the clip might resort to violence? State your opinion of the chances clearly.

I think that the chances are far greater that Jesse will write in a vote for Wallace/LeMay.

Of course, if/when said violence does occur, Rumpole of Ruby Ridge will be shocked, shocked at such an occurance and will vigorously work to the fullest to deny that he nor his ideological allies had absolutely anything at all to do at all with the attack.

Y’know, much like their attitudes on calling ‘em uppity negroes yet not being racists.

I think that the chances are far greater that Jesse will write in a vote for Wallace/LeMay.

Ah. Extremely unlikely, in your view.

Very well, viewing the people in that video, it seems likely to me that some of them could commit some violence in the event that Obama is elected. So now we understand each other’s point of view better, and the discussion has advanced.

Crazy, but yeah, I was pretty sure it was Palin they were booing, but to be fair and reasonable, they would’ve booed anyone. And this was known. Anyone with half a brain KNEW they were going to get booed and were vaguely surprised nothing worse occurred (no octupi? We could’ve thrown moose meat to be alaska patriotic) The candidates knew it, so she pushed her family out on the ice too (remember, the family she wanted to keep private and out of the campaign?) so they could later complain about the meanie Obama supporters who boo children (WHO WERE WITH THEIR VP MOM).
Still not worse than McCain joking about ugly Chelsea, though.

Well, I mean, Sarah Palin went to a hockey game in Philly and got booed. Therefore, leftists and liberals are violent.

Who can argue with airtight logic like that?

Anyone with half a brain KNEW they were going to get booed and were vaguely surprised nothing worse occurred

True, and Palin and the McCain campaign figured that it might be possible to exploit a bunch of victimhood out of it. These people are nothing if not the sort to attempt to gain advantage via incessant whining. Americans are built of sterner stuff than crybabies like Palin and the McCain campaign who apparently can’t handle some booing. It’s like they want to shame us into voting for them out of sympathy for how weak and pathetic they are.

Horace, I highly recommend against posting on blogs while drug.

While drunk, that is. Or drugged.

I’m sorry, but if she actually knew anything about hockey, she would know not to bring her kids to a Flyers game.  Their fans don’t want to be subjegated to random political bs, they want to watch their f-ing hockey game that they paid a lot to see.  These fans booed Santa Claus, for goodness sake. 

Way to attempt to use your kids as a shield.  Very responsible.

My fellow Philly fans didn’t disappoint.  I LOVE this city!

And, yes, the decision to have Palin’s daughters there was very deliberate, damn well knowing what we are like at our sporting events, to deflect attention away from the recent racist antics at their rallies.

Okay I give up: what’s the connection between hockey and octopi?

Hey Bristol was there too, how do they know it wasn’t her the fans were booing?  I mean, it’s obvious they weren’t booing Palin - she has so much in common with all us regular folk in Philly.

Once again, the oh-so-tough-and-hardy conservatives resort to crying like babies and throwing around names because someone was mean to their god-figure.

Remember, they’re big and tough, and we liberals are weak and wimpy.

WATB indeed.

Okay I give up: what’s the connection between hockey and octopi?

this

Okay I give up: what’s the connection between hockey and octopi?

I don’t know if it happens anywhere else, but its a tradition in Detroit to throw octopi onto the ice during the playoffs.  Originally, when the league was smaller, it took 8 playoff game wins to get the Stanley cup . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Octopus

Since 1952, because the tossing of octopuses is generally viewed as a successful symbol of good luck, the practice has persisted each year; in one 1995 game, fans threw 36 octopuses, including a 30-pounder.

No one with sense expects hockey fans to be polite.

Yes, it would have been nice if Palin would have been greeted by a mass rush to get (or remove) beer. But these are hockey fans - booing comes even before beer in importance. Hockey mom Palin ought to know that.

<i>Liberals found someone they can bully; Sarah Palin’s 6 yr old daughter.<i>

Dude, my four hockey-loving Republican brothers would beat the crap out of you for implying they’re liberals.  And they still would have booed Palin if she appeared at their hockey game.

We don’t know that these boorish and rude hockey fans were even liberals or would identify as liberals or even democrats.

They have, however, identified themselves as NOT LIKING PALIN!

One can dislike her, and her ticket, without necessarily being all cozy about Obama.

“Many of the rest of us are all too aware of American history, and aware that domestic terrorism springs almost (highlighted for Rumphole’s benefit) exclusively from the rightwing, at least what we understand it to be, idiots like Goldberg not withstanding.

I add that I was 7-years old when MLK was assassinated, and 8 when RFK was assassinated, so I’m personally too aware of the past to dismiss threats against Obama out of hand.”

Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earl Ray.  Which of these characters were hatched after devouring the collected works of William F. Buckley?  Oswald was your ideological fellow-traveller, Sirhan was, at best, a supporter of the PLO which was never beloved by the American Right, and Ray was a petty criminal with no known political inclinations or involvement.  I’d also wager that the assasin of Malcom X was not a Republican either.  The post-Rodney King trial riots?  Young Republicans, I’m sure.

This meme is simply your attempt to silence legitimate political opposition with feigned concern for Obama’s safety.  To resurrect your credibility, perhaps you could link to your condemnation of some of the Bush assasination porn that we’ve seen over the years.  Likewise your condemnation of Ludacris and Obama’s friendly relationship with him, putting John McCain in a wheelchair and such.

You know, for people who consider themselves so tough—-pit bulls and all that—-conservatives sure do seem to whine a lot.

Horace, if you don’t want liberals to worry about the safety of Obama, then don’t have McCain/Palin rallies turn into violent hate-fests, stop conservatives from providing aid and cover to domestic terroristss like Eric Rudolph, and put a stop to the violent anti-govenrment rhetoric on right-wing talk radio. Until that happens, many of us are going to worry about the sanity and potential danger of McCainiac and Palinist fanatics.

My Philly-bred girlfriend pointed out to me that it was Eagles fans who booed Santa Claus.

I stil say that if Sarah Palin had come out on skates they would not have booed. I bet everyone who walks on those carpet thingies gets booed.

I know nothing about hockey. I live in an area where ice is not a natural phemonenon. You might get frost on the windshield and there was an ice storm ten years back, but consistent below-freezing temperatures are unknown.

I do not understand the ways of the alien ice people. But I do know that if you claim kinship with a tribe and that tribe likes skating, you should skate.

<i>this meme is simply your attempt to silence legitimate political opposition with feigned concern for obama’s safety. </ib>

legitimate political opposition = “he’s a terrorist” “kill him” “off with his head”

point taken.

Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earl Ray.  Which of these characters were hatched after devouring the collected works of William F. Buckley?

James Earl Ray.  What, you forgot about “Why the South Must Prevail” (PDF) and “On Negro Inferiority”?  Buckley was a straight-up, flat-out racist who hated King.

Do you even stop to think about these things before you post?  Geez.

Anyone else notice that Rumpy’s list of assassins stops at 1968?  You’d think McVeigh and Rudolph never existed.  Or you’d have to think that what they did was good and right, so you don’t consider them terrorists.

I’d like Horace to actually link over to the Bush assassination porn. I keep hearing about this stuff, but like the Wumpus, you never actually see it - just rumors that it exists. You’d think the Secret Service would want to be all over that stuff.

“Get in their faces . . .”

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/30849324.html

The greatest ‘terrorist’ plotting found since 9/11 was these fellows here:

The Tyler poison gas plot was an American attempt at domestic terrorism thwarted in April 2003 with the arrest of three individuals in Tyler, Texas and the seizure of a cyanide gas bomb along with a large arsenal that included at least 100 other conventional bombs, machine guns, an assault rifle, an unregistered silencer, and 500,000 rounds of ammunition.[1][2] The chemical stockpile seized included sodium cyanide, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid and acetic acid.[1]

The three individuals were linked to white supremacist and anti-government groups. They were:[1]

  * William J. Krar, originally from New Hampshire
  * Judith Bruey, Krar’s common-law wife
  * Edward Feltus of Old Bridge, New Jersey

Feltus was a member of the New Jersey Militia. Krar was suspected of making his living travelling across the country selling bomb components and other weapons to violent underground anti-government groups.[1] Federal authorities had their eye on Krar since at least 1995 when ATF agents investigated a possible plot to bomb government buildings, but Krar was not charged.[2] Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks their attention was focused on middle-eastern terrorist activities and were only alerted to Krar’s recent activities by accident when he mailed Feltus a package of counterfeit birth certificates from North Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia, and United Nations Multinational Force and Defence Intelligence Agency IDs.[2] The package was mistakenly delivered to a Staten Island man who alerted police.[1]

Booing someone is not the same as threats of violence.

Booing someone is not spreading lies about their past or their agenda.

I’m increasingly thinking about starting a restaurant just so I can fuck with republicans. Whenever someone comes in wearing a GOP-style shirt and they order chicken, I’ll serve them an egg (since they’re the same thing!) and if they complain and send the food back, I’ll call the police and tell them that the customer just threatened to burn my place down.

E.L.F.; Greenpeace; PETA; MOVE; the S.L.A.; FALN .  .  .

Greenpeace. Now there’s some scary, scary people. I hear they tried to save a whale once.

Horace

You left out the scariest of all:

SCREAM BARACKULA SCREAM

BTW, when has PETA or Greenpeace done anything illegal in the USA?

As for the other groups, only one may be still active, the others died out decades ago.

While we’re on the subject of old political terrorist groups:

The Black Legion was an additional organization within the Ku Klux Klan and operated in the United States in the 1930s. The organization was founded by William Shepard in east central Ohio. [1] The group’s total membership was estimated between 20,000 and 30,000, centered in Detroit, Michigan, though the Legion was also highly active in Ohio, and one of its self-described leaders, Virgil “Bert” Effinger, lived and worked in Lima, Ohio. The Associate Press described the organization on May 31, 1936, “as a group of loosely federated night-riding bands operating in several States without central discipline or common purpose beyond the enforcement by lash and pistol of individual leaders’ notions of “Americanism.” The death of Charles Poole, kidnapped and murdered in southwest Detroit, caused authorities to finally arrest and successfully try and convict a group of twelve men, thereby ending the reign of the Black Legion.

You’re not from Ohio or Michigan, are you, Horace?

Just saying.

“What part of “almost” are you not able to understand Rumphole?”

The construction that renders your statement untrue.  On balance, there are more Leftist terrorists and groups that have operated in the U.S. - starting with the anarchists at the turn of the century, through all of our friends like the Weathermen, to the really cool doodz who vandalise and assault, such as Critical Mass and the anti-globalisation folks.

“I would also like you to explain how right wing terrorists who KILL PEOPLE are not as bad as left wing terrorists WHO DAMAGE PROPERTY”

You pretty much need to hang your hat on the fact that the very few rightwing terrorists have been competent in carrying out their terrorist objectives.  Ayers and co. tried to kill people (with improvised flechettes) but were simply unable to perform. 

Let us resolve one thing that I have yet to understand -

1) is the issue that Ayers has been rehabilitated, despite redoubling his support for his terrorist activities, rendering any relationship between Ayers and Obama insignificant?, or

2) Ayers was a legtitimate analog of George Washington, rendering any relationship between Ayers and Obama a credit to Obama, or at least, not a discredit? or

2) that Obama’s relationship with Ayers was of such an oblique nature so as to be insignificant?

Which of the three is the case?

The difference being that afterwards, Timothy McVeigh never came over John McCain’s house to play darts. 

Since when did this become a matter of bodycount?  The leftard terrorists try to kill people, but are quite simply incompetent and cannot execute their mission.  I don’t feel the need to further disown McVeigh, as I have in the past, whether you choose to beat that horse further still, his name being the only one you have at your disposal.

“Sure, go ahead and dismiss McVeigh.”

I never dismissed him.  I wholeheartedly supported his execution, as did John McCain.  I did never shake his hand.  Neither John McCain nor I served on the same board with him.  I did not endorse any books he wrote, nor did I practice law at his wife’s firm.  I never participated in an event in my honor at Timothy McVeigh’s home, nor did he ever attend dinner parties at my home or babysit my children.

It’s not like McCain knows anyone who praised a convicted criminal of anything….......

Why you should now be investigating this-McCain’s tacit support for a woman who had shot an abortion doctor. A woman of whom the sentencing judge said, quote, “You are a terrorist.” The senator sat at a 1993 fundraiser beside another woman who defended her. The other woman wound up a McCain delegate to the GOP convention last month.

And yet, McCain went, sat silently, offered no rebuke during or after the remarks of this woman, Marilyn Shannon, who praised a local woman who had just shot a doctor less than two weeks earlier. A doctor who was a former Navy flight surgeon, a sonogram pioneer, was shot in both arms because he performed legal abortions.

Unlike Ayers, who did not endorse terrorist activities during his meetings with Obama, this woman, Shannon, said of the shooter, as McCain sat there, quote, “She’s a fine lady.” A judge later sentenced this “fine lady” for a campaign of, yes, bombing women’s clinics said, quote, “Though, I am loathed to call anyone a terrorist, you are a terrorist.”

And Marilyn Shannon, who defended that terrorist, who later said her praise did not mean she approves of others doing what that terrorist did, as McCain renounced her even, she was a Bush delegate in 2004, seen here with a purple heart bandage, mocking the American combat veteran, John Kerry. This year, last month, she was a delegate for John McCain.

When toting up body counts to be laid at the door of “terrorists,” Left and Right, we should remember that aside from people who are ultimately losers, whether or not they succeed in killing dozens or hundreds first, the long legacy of lynchings, vigilantism, and general hell-raising like the murder of Matthew Shepard, for instance, by people who generally get away with it.

That stuff is overwhelmingly and clearly right-wing. Throw in legalized murder in union-busting actions by private security and public officials, and it is pretty clear where the balance lies.